Hines REIT Begins Property Selloff Preferred Apartment Communities Buys 7 Grocery-Anchored Centers; Fortis Buys Chase Tower August 9, 2016 | By Mark Heschmeyer | CoStar Hines Real Estate Investment Trust Inc. has begun proceeding with its plan of liquidation. This week, Preferred Apartment Communities Inc. acquired seven grocery-anchored shopping centers with 650,400 rentable …
Read more
Hines REIT Begins Property Selloff
Preferred Apartment Communities Buys 7 Grocery-Anchored Centers; Fortis Buys Chase Tower
Hines Real Estate Investment Trust Inc. has begun proceeding with its plan of liquidation.
This week, Preferred Apartment Communities Inc. acquired seven grocery-anchored shopping centers with 650,400 rentable square feet in Georgia, Florida, Texas and North Carolina for $158 million, about $243/square foot. Preferred purchased the properties through its wholly-owned subsidiary New Market Properties LLC.
Last week, Fortis Property Group, a Brooklyn, NY-based investor, acquired the signature Chase Tower at 2200 Ross Ave. in downtown Dallas from Hines REIT for an estimated $285 million.
